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Hiring a Head of Product | Rich Mironov | BoS USA Online 2020

Business of Software Conference

If you don’t have a Head of Product you may suffer from: narrow focus on engineer/development productivity; underpowered product management teams; customer benefits misaligned with actual features; and lack of a realistic product strategy. Rich Mironov // Mironov Consulting. But it’s hard to hire a Head of Product.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. There are plenty of resources and advice on unlocking the secrets of the engineering management career path. The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo finally took place. Karen Peacock: In college, I studied math and computer science and engineering.

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Growth, Funding, Pivotal Moments and the Evolution of Adzerk to Kevel

Business of Software Conference

Some of the BoS talks that had an impact on his company, including changing its name to Kevel. 15:53 James Avery, Kevel: Yeah, so we we’ve usually been about half and half when we look at like product engineering, and then sales, marketing operations. It’s like five engineers, 50. Salespeople. The Goals of Funding.

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5 Product Management Conferences Not to Miss in 2020

Revulytics

Glassdoor named Product Manager the fifth best job out of 50 in America, with more job openings than data engineers and DevOps engineers. Date: July 13-14, 2020. Other attendees tend to be from business analytics, UX & design, development & engineering, and project management departments. Mind the Product.

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Launching a New Breakout Product | Jason Fried | BoS USA Online 2020

Business of Software Conference

The launch of Hey, Basecamp’s new email service, has become one of the most talked about product launches of 2020- not least because of the very public fight with the Apple store. And over the years we’ve made a name for ourselves being an independent company we’re a relatively small business intentionally.

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Leading the Change: How Ellen Juhlin Introduced Discovery Habits at Orion Labs

Product Talk

We discussed how Ellen first learned about continuous discovery and the steps she took to roll it out, specifically with the engineers at Orion Labs. Teresa: We are here today to discuss how Ellen introduced her engineers to discovery and how she got them involved in a more continuous cadence to their discovery work.

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Kevin Indig on searching for meaning and the meaning of search

Intercom, Inc.

We look at the death of the 10 blue links and why Google is now an answer engine as opposed to a search engine. And that got me started thinking about this concept of search engines and that’s where it all came from. In a crowded category , it can be tough to make an SEO impact.